June 18, 2005	Saturday	Jumadi-ul-Awwal 10, 1426

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QUETTA, June 17: The Pakistan People’s Party will fully participate in the upcoming local council elections despite obstacles being created by the government, the party’s general secretary in Sindh said on Friday.

Nafees Ahmed Siddique told a press conference here that the government had created new districts and had bifurcated old districts in the province just to deprive the PPP of its vote bank.

Mr Siddique said the government was creating a law and order situation in Sindh and other provinces with the aim of influencing the results of the local bodies poll and blocking the electoral march of PPP candidates.

“The Sindh government has worked out a plan to rig the local bodies polls,” he said. But he made it clear that the PPP would not leave the field open for others and would fully take part in these elections and overcome all the odds.

Mr Siddique said that the PPP had planned a seat-to-seat adjustment with component parties of the Alliance for Restoration of Democracy (ARD) in the local bodies elections so that together their representatives could give a tough time to the rulers.

Mr Siddique claimed that the Sindh government had failed to bring peace and establish public order in the province.

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